Candy-twisting machine.



EMLME W. D. REEVES. CANDY TWISTING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY a1, 1908.

942,284, Patented Dec.7, 1909.

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WILLIAM DALTON REEVES, 0F ATLANTA, GEORGIA.

CANDY-TWIS'IING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. '7, 1909.

Application filed July 31, 1908. Serial No. 446,353.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, IVILLIAM DALTON REEVES, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and residing at Atlanta, in the county of Fulton and State ofGeorgia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Candy-Twisting Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to candy making machines, and particularly tomachines for forming and twisting stick candy. Its objects are tosimplify and improve the construction of such machines and to produce adevice which will more efficiently twist the candy than those in commonuse.

The novel features and advantages of the device will be understood fromthe following description taken in connection with the accompanyingdrawings.

In the drawings, Figure l is a longitudinal section of the essentialfeatures of my invention; and Fig. 2 is a plan view.

My invention embodies a rotary member mounted in bearings and includinga rotary candy receiving tube in line with two grooved transverserollers which turn bodily with the rotary member and at the same timerotate upon their own axes, thus feeding forward the candy supplied tothem from the rotary tube. There is a stationary discharge tube whichreceives the candy from these rollers and there are two grooved feedrollers on this machine in advance of the rotary candy receiving tube.

In the drawings 1 represents the rotary member of my candy twistingmachine, and it will be observed that it embodies the tube 2 mounted inthe bearing 3 in the stationary spider frame 4, and that it alsoembodies at its other end a sleeve bearing 5 which is adapted to rotateon the stationary tube 6 mounted in the spider frame 7. The sleeve 5 isprovided with the gear teeth 8 which are adapted to be engaged by gearteeth upon any suitable driving mechanism whereby the member 1 will berotated. The tube 2 and the sleeve 5 are connected by the flat side bars9 and 10, and two transverse feed rollers 11 and 12 are mounted uponthese side bars, these rollers being provided with meeting grooves 13which make a circular passage between them. The roller 11 rotates uponbearings secured to the side bar 9 and this roller is provided with thebevel gear 14 which is in a position to engage the bevel gear 15 uponthe end of the stationary tube 6. The roller 12 is mounted upon bearingssecured to the side bar 10 and the rollers 11 and 12 have intermeshinggears 16 which make them rotate together in opposite directions. Sincethe roller 11 is mounted in the center of the bevel gear 14 and sincethe candy receiving tube 6 must be in line with the opening formed bythe grooves in the rollers 11 and 12 it is necessary for the tube 6 tobe at one side of the center of the bevel gear 14, and thus the bevelgear 15 must engage the gear eccentrically. To this end the teeth on thegear 14 are not made radial, but are placed at an angle.

In advance of the rotary tube 2 I place the grooved feed rollers 17, 18mounted in the forked upper end 19 of the adjustable support 20. Theserollers and the bevel gear 21 secured to the roller 17 are similar tothe rollers 11, 12 and the gear 14. The gear 21 engages eccentricallythe bevel gear 22 on the end of the rotary tube 2, and by this means therollers are turned upon their own axes as the tube 2 is rotated. It willbe understood that these rollers are mounted upon stationary bearingsand have no motion except a rotary motion upon their It will beunderstood from the above description that the candy is fed by anysuitable means known in the art to the rollers 17 and 18 as indicated bythe arrow in Fig. 1, and that the candy pressed between these rollers instick form enters the rotary tube 2 which serves to twist it. When thecandy leaves the tube 2 it passes between the rollers 11 and 12 whichrollers serve to feed it forward, and which by reason of their bodilyrotation with the member 1, serve also to twist it. From these rollersthe candy passes through the stationary tube 6 and is discharged. Thepower for operating the machine is supplied through the gear 8 and istransmitted to the feed rollers by the bevel gears as above indicated.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is:

1. In a candy making machine, the combination with a stationary candyreceiving tube, of a rotary candy receiving tube in line therewith,intermediate transverse grooved rollers mounted to move bodily with saidrotary tube, gearing connecting said rollers with the stationary tubewhereby they rotate upon their own axes as they turn, grooved feedrollers in advance of the end of said rotary tube mounted uponstationary bearings,

and gearing connection between said rollers said stationary tube, and abevel gear makand tube whereby they are rotated upon their axes as thetube is turned.

2. In a candy making machine, the combination with grooved feed rollers,of a rotary member having a tubular portion adjacent and in line withsaid feed rollers and having a bifurcated portion carrying grooved feedrollers in line with said tubular portion, a stationary discharge tubein line with said last mentioned rollers, rotary bearing connectionbetween said stationary tube and rotary member, and gearing connectionbetween said stationary tube and feed rollers whereby the rollers arerotated on their axes when the frame is turned.

3. In a candy making machine, the combination with a rotary memberembodying a tubular candy receiving portion at one end, a tubularportion at the other end having an interior bearing surface and anintermediate connecting frame, of a stationary candy receiving tube inline with the candy receiving portion and upon which the bearing surfaceof said tubular portion fits, transverse shafts in said frame uponopposite sides of the central line of the member, grooved rollers havingintermeshing gears 011 said shafts and bevel gears connecting one ofsaid rollers with the end of said stationary tube.

4:. In a candy making machine, the combination with a rotary member,embodying a tubular candy receiving portion at one end, a tubularportion at the other end having an interior bearing surface, and anintermediate connecting frame, of a stationary candy receiving tube inline with the candy receiving portion and upon which the bearing surfaceof said tubular portion fits, transverse shafts in said frame uponopposite sides of the central line of the member, grooved rollers havingintermeshing gears on said shafts, a bevel gear upon the end of 111geccentric engagement therewith mounted on one of said shafts and securedto the' roller thereon.

5. In a candy making machine, the combination with a stationary candyreceiving tube, of a rotary member in line with said tube, groovedrollers mounted transversely in said member, the meeting edges of saidrollers being in line with said tube, gears connecting said rollerswhereby they move together, a bevel gear upon the end of said stationarytube, and a bevel gear upon one of said rollers making eccentricengagement with the gear on said tube.

6. In a candy making machine, the combination of grooved feed rollersmounted on stationary bearings, of a rotary tube in line with saidrollers and adapted to receive the candy therefrom, grooved feed rollersin line with said tube adapted to revolve upon their own axes and theaxes of which are adapted to turn bodily in a plane at right angles tothe direction of feed of the candy, and a stationary discharge tubeadapted to receive the candy from the last mentioned rollers.

7. In a candy making machine the C011]- bination with a stationary candyreceiving tube, of a rotary candy receiving tube in line therewith,intermediate transverse rollers mounted to move bodily with said rotarytube, the meeting edges of said rollers being in line with said tube,and bevel gears connecting said rollers with the stationary tube wherebythey rotate upon their own axes as they turn.

In testimony whereof I atlix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

\VILLIAM DALTON REEVES.

\Vitnesses K. J. Sronnn, J. J. I'IUSTINGS.

